Willis E. Everette
	
Willis Everette was a civilian scout engaged to travel the Yukon River and explore Alaska south of the Yukon in 1884. Judge Wickersham called him an adventurous ethnologist. Everette travelled to Fort Reliance and drew a sketch of the buildings. He waited until the end of the season for the steamer and found there would not be adequate supplies to stay the winter. in 1884, McQuesten ran the supplies up to Fort Reliance with Mayo in the //New Racket// and left Mayo in charge. McQuesten returned to St. Michael with Everette and then went outside to buy the first miner's equipment for Fort Reliance. Everette stayed the winter at St. Michael and returned to San Francisco in 1885. The Archives in the University of Fairbanks holds the sketch of Fort Reliance. Everette notes that he stayed there alone for twenty-two days, sick to death with typhoid fever. Lt. Allen notes that Everette was living at Fort Reliance with an Indigenous woman and had declined the offers of prospectors to aid him in his exploration of eastern Alaska.((Donald W. Clark. //Fort Reliance, Yukon: An Archaeological Assessment.// Mercury Series Archaeological Survey of Canada. Paper 150. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 1995: 18-19, 28.))